Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is characterized by long-term diffuse peripatellar and retropatellar localized pain in one or both knees, which worsens during walking uphill or downhill, squatting, kneeling, or prolonged ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a serious disease, the aetiology of which remains
unknown. The disease is manifest in a number of complex symptoms involving the
neurological, immunological and endocrine systems. The ...

Background: Primary care doctors on-call in the emergency primary health care services in Norway are, together
with the ambulances, the primary resources for handling emergencies outside hospitals. There is a lack of ...

Background:
In an elderly, community based population we aimed at investigating antihypertensive and lipid lowering medication use in relation to own and familiar cardiovascular morbidity and diabetes mellitus, as well ...

Simulated patients are today used world wide in clinical communication training.
Using simulated patients will imply the use of theatrical fiction. Basic elements of a
theatrical fiction are relocation of time and space ...

Objective: To explore doctor-patient interactions and
decision-making processes before high-risk cardiac
surgery or intervention with special attention to existential
challenges.
Design, setting and participants: We ...

Existential challenges affect both patients and doctors in clinical practice. The aims
of this study have been to explore how patients and doctors experience and cope with
existential aspects of being struck by and ...

Background: Seasonal variations in mood and behaviour, termed seasonality, are commonly reported in the general
population. As a part of a large cross-sectional health survey in Hordaland, Norway, we investigated the ...

Simulated patients (SP) are being used in medical communication training worldwide. The
character of an SP will be trained in advance. However, the dialogue with the student is never
fully predictable. The aim of this ...